If i used the Grolsch beer bottles with the pop tops, how long do you think the wine would last in them before going bad?
The Grolsh type flip top is designed to keep pressure in the bottle. The seal is not deigned to keep outside pressures from coming in with out the inside pressure to seal the top in place. My father inlaw used to use this style to bottle his wine back when. His wine always went oxidized in about a years time. I tried to explain the top design but he was stubborn and said that if the top was designed to keep pressure in then it should keep oxygen out and could not understand why his wine oxidized so quickly.This is just my theory but I do believe it has some teeth.
Never thought of that. Your point has real merit.
Are you sure that it was the bottle that turned the wine? Did you ever put any into a standard, corked bottle and compare? If you did that, then your FIL could not argue with you.
It was red. I do not know wether or not he monitored the PH and I can not find out as he passed last year.There can be several reasons why a wine oxydizes. Did your FIL monitor the PH and keep the bottles filled to the top? Was it white wine or red?
There had to be something wrong with the seal or the priming. I have never had the seal on a grolsh bottle fail. I have been using this style bottle for about 15 years.I fermented some local cider and bottle carbonated it last Fall and almost a quarter of the Grolsch bottles did not hold the carbonation in. It seems like a good renewable idea but I won't be using them again. They were brand new from the LHBS too!
It was red. I do not know wether or not he monitored the PH and I can not find out as he passed last year.
I've never used them but understand you can go a year, maybe more. Although I don't know where to get them, it's also possible to purchase replacement rubber gaskets.
Tony P.
The seals dry out and crack and tend to do so more often if reused. Once locked down will hold a seal pretty long. For a dime each its cheaper than corks to replace each time you bottle.
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